Whodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

In Sue Grafton’s latest alphabet thriller, V Is For Vengeance, two black eyes and a broken nose make a decidedly unhappy birthday for eternally 30-something PI Kinsey Millhone. She’s not going down without a fight, though. As she succinctly puts it: “For the record, I’d like to say I am a big fan of forgiveness as long as I’m given the opportunity to get even...

Whodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

The Third World is a notorious landing place for all manner of loose cannons, bad seeds and “wretched refuse,” and nowhere is this more pronounced than in the steamy environs of tropical Thailand. Vincent Calvino, protagonist of Christopher G. Moore’s atmospheric Paying Back Jack, works at the fringes of the aforementioned groups, a disbarred lawyer scratching out a living as...

Audio Column by Sukey Howard

If I ever need a private detective, I'd like to call Kinsey Millhone. I've followed her alphabetic adventures for years and now we're at S. S could easily stand for super-suspenseful story, but in Sue Grafton's 19th compelling foray into crime, S Is for Silence. Daisy's young, pretty mother, a flashy good-time girl with an abusive husband, disappeared without a trace 34 years ago. Daisy, now...

Whodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

Welcome to Santa Teresa, California, where private investigator Kinsey Millhone plies her trade. The time is the mid-1980s, and Millhone drives a perpetually rundown Volkswagen. The somewhat vintage seting means Millhone is without the conveniences we take for granted nowadays: Internet, cell phones, GPS systems and the like. Beginning with 1983's A is For Alibi, Millhone has solved 19...

Whodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

Sue Grafton is drawing dangerously near the end of the alphabet with her popular Kinsey Millhone mysteries, which started with A Is For Alibi and continues through the new release Q Is For Quarry. One might well ask, at the rate of one book per year, what will she do about a title in 2012, having run through all the available letters? Some folks here at BookPage have suggested that she use the...

Audio Column by Stephanie Swilley

ue Grafton, that alphabetically able author, is back with her 16th bestseller, P is for Peril. Kinsey Millhone, a hard-working, no-nonsense, private investigator, given the appropriate no-nonsense voice here by Judy Kaye, has been a star since this series started in 1982 with A is for Alibi. Kinsey lives and works in St. Theresa, California, and rarely turns down a job. When a prominent doctor...

For Sue Grafton, it's as easy as ABC

It's 16 down and 10 to go. Sue Grafton is working her way through the alphabet with the mystery series featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone, and this month she follows O is for Outlaw with her latest release, P is for Peril. Coming up with plenty of title possibilities for the letter "P" was not a problem for this prolific...

Ever since I read, A Is for Alibi, 13 books ago, I've been hooked on the adventures of Kinsey Millhone, Sue Grafton's private investigator, who works out of Santa Teresa, California. I have followed Kinsey through B Is for Burglar, C Is for Corpse, all the way through M Is for Malice. The 14th in the series, N Is for Noose, is the best yet, and all of them rate five diamonds. Kinsey is brave,...

Anyone who has followed the sleuthing of Kinsey Millhone won't be surprised to hear that Sue Grafton, in this 15th installment of what many people call the Alphabet Murder series, has been successful again. What will surprise readers is the journey into Kinsey Millhone's past, something that until now, Grafton has withheld (well, save for some tidbits here and there). In fact, O Is for Outlaw...